We watch a lot of real-life US murder programmes. American-English is awful.

Can we make it so American presidents have to take this test, as well?

Really we should all ask him to take it.

And pass the naturalization test too. I'd love to see his whole cabinet attempt that one, but especially Trump.

Tommy Tuberville, that vegetable from Alabama, could NOT identify the 3 branches of government. My husband came here at 13; became a citizen 20 yrs later. He knows more about our government than Shitgibbon & his cabal. Those tests are for real lol

Man. Woman. Tv. Camera

Person??

Extra credit, here’s your truck license

I’m embarrassed to remember this 😔

Unlike the felon who still brags how he aced the test

Look at the reports coming from the ports. Cargo ships coming in are down by half. This tariff garbage is going to devastate our economy It's beginning to seem intentional. There are numerous billionaires in the background Thiel for one has talked of destroying democracy youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...

Could Trump pass it?

I know a trucker, born and raised here. We went to the same damn H.S. though a few years apart. He has the most atrocious grammar, EVER! It’s not just how he speaks, he actually writes exactly how he speaks. Not great at spelling either 😂😂

Is Trump taking it first?

Literacy tests for US truckers? That could be embarrassing.

No, literary tests. "A Clockwork Orange is a modern classic. In 2000 words, discuss Burgess' depiction of Alex and the Droogs as the multilingual shock troops creating a new social order."

Make trump take a reading apprehension test. Guessing he’d fail.

Comprehension… I failed the test..Lol

he should have yo take a test about the constitution and every amendment. if he fails, he goes to jail.

That’d be an instant ride to jail for him. He doesn’t have a clue about anything in the Constitution.

They are giving tests on English Lit. How much would you pay to see Trump attempt to read/explain Chaucer?

Is there an English literary test for U.S. Presidents?

Quiz 'em on the US Constitution. The test immigrants take could probably be re-used as-is, though it might be too hard for some candidates.

Oh dear.

I’m sure he’ll facilitate a carve out for all the white truckers

Does the test apply to self-driving trucks as well?

If the test is about "they're", "there" and "their" many "homegrowns" will fail.

“Your” in place of “you’re” is usually a giveaway.

Will there be a section on pronouns or have they already been banned from the 'new maga' English language?

Hell half of them struggle with sell vs sale. I saw the store had that on sell. I'm having a yard sell. Are you gonna sale that? 🤦‍♀️

MANY? Oh, you cute optimist, you! 🤣😉

Like DEI, there's no holding back anymore

If you're mad at journalists, Congrats on declaring war against "things that happened." Next up: banning mirrors for being "too judgmental."

Oooohh 'bout to be some very angry mediocre white men again.

Weird, they emphasize literacy and shutter the Dept of Education. It's like they toggle between being racist and being stupid.

Those are different things?

None of the truckers are busy rn anyways.

A test most of his cult couldn't pass. Your in America. Learn are language.

On point 😂

😂😂👏🏻

🤣🤣🤣

It's Merica, duh

🤣👏

Stupidest post I have ever seen. "Literary," relates to the art and study of literature, focusing on the aesthetic and creative aspects of written works. I suspect the literal brain trust that made this post meant to say Literacy test. "Literacy" refers to the ability to read and write. SMMFH

Thanks for the sharing Maybe someone will pick up on that...

Hahaha. Idiot. He’d flunk a literacy test.

Let the trucking shortage begin...

Since driver's test are at state level, most states will tell him to FUCK OFF and DIE.

whoa .. that's gonna backfire !!!!!!! 99% of maggots can't read! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Examining trade routes from a feminist lens?

If he was hoping for his poll numbers to go back up, I wouldn't have picked attacking the crowd that I just almost put completely out of business with my own yuge incompetence

Good luck with that one, I spent 12 years on the road. Plenty of good ole' boys couldn't pass that requirement. 🤣😂🤣😂 #MAGAEQUALSNAZI #DICTATORFORADAY #therewillbeblood

the number of born-here Americans that struggled with the ELD mandate...... lmao it's like pulling teeth to get them to renew their medical a fucking proctored English exam??? fuck off get real

No lies detected. 🤣😂🤣

😂

Most truckers born in the good old United States of America do not speak standard grammatically correct English. Hello.

Neither does Trump…

He doesn’t; and that’s why the next Executive Order will redefine proper English to be whatever Trump says it is. Covfefe.

Especially not if complete sentences are required.

trump’s gestapo will only give the test to "people who look like immigrants”

My money is on the immigrant truckers who took the time to educate themselves on Fed and state laws and not on the crusty white guys & gals with GEDs.

They never fail to let us see their sheer uneducated stupidity. The thing is, we don't have to point it out. They show us every day.

There are so many White people that are illiterate. My mother taught night classes that were full of people learning to read in their 30's and 40's in Montana. So many school dropouts learned they could not get by without reading. All this because my grandad was an illiterate working man.

This is going to backfire spectacularly.

Empty container ships will eliminate their jobs before they’ll be able to take the test.

Trucking industry heavily employs felons. They will actively need to work on attaining their GED while in prison so they can get their CDL when they get released.

Finally, the real threat on the highways is being addressed: a shocking lack of Shakespeare knowledge among truckers. I mean, who cares about driving skills when you can't properly analyze Hamlet at 70 miles per hour? Priorities, people!

Methinks, thou doth protest too much.

Whose reading tRUMP the order?

Trump appoints himself HR over the trucking industry. Hilarious!

President Trump thinks we need very smart, highly literate people driving trucks.

WTAF? Did this just happen?

So the military to police citizens. I thought they would be busy invading Greenland and Panama, or who ever else Trump gets pissed at.

This isn’t martial law.

It's the lead up to martial law. It also indemnifies police for their actions, so brutality is now legal if this EO is upheld. Additionally, police and Mitchell can be used for the border and disappearing ppl. There's hints at protesting, increasing prison capacity and a warning to judges.

It also empowers the fed to violate states rights and local jurisdictions. This order is exceptionally dangerous. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

So is he saying the local police aren’t doing their jobs?

I don't think he's saying that.

So what is he saying?

There's an explainer in the thread.

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Fucking scary.

“Unleash high-impact police local police forces.” Somebody needs to sit on Stephen Miller until a deprogrammer for his particular delusion can be found.

It's true.

Oh shit. If true this is the official start of the American brown shirts. Get ready America, we're going from very bad to fucking horrifying now.

Trying to destroy yet another industry. Will they go after roofers next 🤔

So cops are professional linguists now? I bet the mute truck drivers have something to say.

🤣🤣🤣

Literary tests? Are you checking to see if I’m an illegal deodorant?

🤣

can 47 pass such a test?

Don’t they already have a test?

I mean with all those long hours behind the wheel, they’ve got time to listen to the classic works of literature so, yeah, sure.

Ha Ha!

They ran this bill in the Tennessee legislature last month. Those dipshits think truckers are all brown people… then an R in logistics pointed out how many Eastern Europeans are American truckers. Loll. It failed.

And here I was, thinking that urine tests were going to be a thing again… but no. Instead it’s “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.”

Literary or literacy? Just how many good books do truck drivers read while they're hauling goods across the country?

Ironically, after Trump's tariffs freeze the supply chain, truckers will have no goods to haul and lots of time to read.

My brother-in-law hauls blacktop and his favorite book is Wuthering Heights

Erm, one of my best literature students drove trucks for a few years ...

Not reading behind the wheel, I hope.

nope😁

"Compare the existential crises of Robert Ludlum's characters to those of Tom Clancy, then how Lee Childs' characters face different challenges." "A failure means you need to exit your truck immediately and wait at the nearby diner counter for the local ICE literary proctor"

FINALLY ALL THOSE YEARS OF STUDYING CHAUCER WILL PAY OFF!!!

They have to free up some ‘Merican jobs for all those fine folks they let go from public service jobs. Trickle down economic pain…

Hahaha they meant literacy! That is the fastest karmic boomerang I have ever seen. Self own #856 of the first 100 days.

White dudes become truckers cuz learning is hard.

Ummm, has he met many truckers? I don’t think any of them will submit to an English test. They tend to be fierce individualists.

What?! 😳

From the guy who typed this… The irony level is cosmic!

The first idiot is the #convictedfelontrump

Agree covfefe 👊🇺🇸🔥

Breaker one nine, this here's the Blue Ghost outta Kankakee. Anybody got their ears on? I gotta know the difference between an allegory and an alliteration before tomorrow's CDL test. Ten-four.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Literary or literacy? OMG we are being governed by idiots. Who by the way would not pass a literacy test.

Self own of the day, is it not?

I’ll sleep well at night knowing my goods are being driven by truckers who can quote Milton.

Same thought, Emily Dickinson's poems

I was about to say that! Are we going to discuss the philosophical nuances of Steinbeck and Hemingway?

That might be it – with the cessation of shipping due to tariffs, there's a greatly reduced need for truck drivers. But if they can be removed from the lists, the regime can claim lower "trucker unemployment" numbers.

I love the mental image of all these truckers in a room writing essays about The Great Gatsby.

😂😂

"Psst... Spike! Hey Spike!! What did you put for the meaning of the green light at the end of the dock? Did you get D, All of the Above?"

Yes. We will do it strongly. Like nobody has ever seen before. That I can tell you.

Exactly.

Based on Twitter comments —Half the English speaking truck drivers are gonna fail.

Actually, I'd even place a bet that half of the English speaking citizens here would fail., based on what I read on my local FB page looks like.

What conspiracy theory promoted this stupidity?

FOTUS would fail! 😂

He ought to pass it himself.

Add this one to the You Can’t Make this Shit up list .

Well, since the maga truckers don’t read & the trumpers are all about banning books, I don’t see many truckers passing a “Literary” test. Crazy times.

Maybe they’ll have to identify quotes from Shakespeare. Looking forward to it.

DT should have to pass th same test w/ NO help from any of his "educated" admin. members. He should take the test sitting at a desk outside on the White House drive, w/ no ear communication device that he could be fed answers on. No MoCA test or US. mini mental status test. Same test as truckers

Yeah getting good marks on the MOCA - what an accomplishment. And I doubt he could do either that or a mini mental.

ABSOLUTELY!!!

"A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend." --Billy

He needs to sign one for himself. That man is damn near illiterate.

He can't even drive his golf car. Maybe that is the caddies job too, but I still don't think he can even if he would.

I wonder if Melania would pass one 🙄

She got a 'genius visa' 😇

Her husband wouldn’t for sure

He had his dad as "anker baby" aka is safe

Well, the moron in chief can't pass this test. Most immigrants have a higher level of education than Putin's bitch.

He has a good education, just that none of it stuck (difficult to teach anything to someone with the mental acuity of a houseplant)

Houseplant!! Damn that generous. I would think closer to a bucket of wallpaper paste.

Wallpaper waste ? It’s a bucket of excrement

Prove to me that he graduated. Show me a picture his proud(?) parents, guardian, nanny, anyone took that day.

I never claimed that he graduated: I just happen to know he attended Wharton, mostly because one of his professors said he was the stupidest student he’d ever had (paraphrased)

How about we give those tests to residents of the White House?

Ffs! 🤦🏻‍♂️ All that power and no one to check his spelling / grammar Dumb 🍊🤡

"Literary" 🤣 Yep! BIGLY literary!

Oh, this is gonna be gooooood. 🙄

Another f up 🤦🏼‍♀️. Not one of them can see beyond trumps ass

😆

already happening in Arkansas. I saw this Tiktok video mentioned here. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

They might just as well declare a paint-palette-card test. At least they'd accomplish the goal of an all-white truck-driver industry (which a literacy test might not achieve).

😂

oops

Does it include when to Capitalize?

And “quotation marks.”

CAPS LOCK ONLY FOR THEM

Maybe he thinks it's spelled "Capitolize" and so he has to do it.

wonder if he could pass the test himself?

Not a chance.

s'what i was thinking too

Should be one for the office of President too

Didn't they mean literacy, and not literary? I'm picturing a trucker in a Love's or a Buc-cee's, asking for some Steinbeck along with his Slim Jims...

No trucks allowed at Buc-ees

Ah, I forgot. Well, we can change that to Sheetz.

Well, it says “English literary test,” so I guess folks better bone up on Dickens and Jane Austen.

Imagine some yokel who barely graduated grade school reading The Great Gatsby over his stomach destructing truck stop eggs 😭🤣

The entire trucking industry in the south will collapse.

Maybe a similar concept should be applied to presidential candidates?

clearly trying to fire lots of truckers before it becomes evident there’s no more incoming cargo for them to transport?

Only if Trump can pass it first.

"Literary tests" versus "literacy tests"? Such as, who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? What's a couplet? Name one novel by Cormac McCarthy? Trump & Co can't spell!

Mark Twain A portion of a poem that most times rhyme All the Pretty Horses

A- A couplet is technically two consecutive lines that rhyme. Thanks for playing along.

Not always, but thanks.

"Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit." Couplets, by definition, always rhyme. Otherwise, they are simply paired lines that may be of the same length and meter: for example, iambic pentameter lines are all 10 syllables, but not necessarily rhymed.

P.S. This has been fun and a great escape from all the dismal political news.

It has, thank you!

Source? A pair of unrhymed lines of verse would never be called a couplet in any traditional sense. I suppose that current criticism has allowed the term to apply to a set of even length, paired lines set off from the rest of the poem. No professor I ever had for 3 degrees in English would say so.

Oxford languages.

Shucks, my definition comes from Cambridge University. 😉

🤣😂🤣

Cormac McCarthy? Lucky I’m not a truck driver. But at least now I know who wrote “No Country for Old Men”.

Irony flows from POTUS.

You there, in the Peterbilt 589 with the Candy Apple Red paint job and the red & black mudflaps, compare and contrast the characters Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper's 'The Deerslayer' and Kino in John Steinbeck's 'The Pearl.' You have 20 minutes and Googling is not allowed.

can't wait to see the pronon section

You should make Trump take the test first... and not grade him on the curve....

They would lie and say he passed it 100%. Remember they said in his last phycial exam he's 6'4" and weighs 245 lbs.

Yeah but that was on his curve

He wouldn't pass either way.

Covfefe marks the spot...

He would fail even if you did grade on a curve. He reads and speaks at about a third grade level much of the time.

Doesn't matter what language they speak if there aren't any goods to move. Look at your local docks.

This!

Literary tests?? These illiterate buffoons are non stop with the stupidity. 24/7 stupidity.

The Illiterati if you will.

We rank 36th in literacy in the world. 54% of adults have a literacy level below 6th grade. 66% of those were U.S. born. 21% of adults are illiterate. It won’t be just immigrants failing. www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...

They're all in trouble if there are questions on your/you're or their/there/they're.

I assume he means literacy, unless they intend to include questions on the collected works of Thomas Hardy.

Oh, please, let it be Hardy 😂 They’ll off themselves before they even make it to the end of Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

Shhhhhhhh dont give them the answer...

Why?

By this, I’m asking why truckers need a literacy test.

Trump should take the test first.

🤣

Did they misspell "literacy"?

No they just don't know what it means

Literally don’t. 😏

The 🍊🪳🍊💩 is the illiterate!!!

And his cabinet is the Illiterati.

Hahahahaha. Good one.

Trump should have to take the test, too.

If they ask for correct usage of their, there, and they’re, every MAGAt will fail.

Their Signal Chat had a reporter there, because they're idiots.

10-4

Looks to me like the first to fail was First Squawk

As a former logistics specialist... we'll be left with *maybe* three dozen truckers in the entire country, and 3/4 of them will be from India.

Doesn’t this kinda require posting and comments in the Federal Register?

legally, yes

With his administration legally means we can do it until someone really really forces us to stop ... And then maybe just a little more... What do you expect from a group of rapists, child molesters, and couch defilers.

No laws. Only vibes.

Literacy.

Do they mean literacy?

🤣🤣🤣

😂 they can’t really be that stupid, can they?

Sure they can…they prove it daily.

IS THIS A BOOK? HOW ABOUT THIS?

Haha - Explain Kafka’s Metamorphosis or you can’t get gas for your truck.

No, truckers need to be able to explain the role of novelists and poets in forming national identities in postcolonial Africa.

Either way, I think our red neck white male/female trucker population will soon be OUT OF WORK. They can't read and write and they certainly are NOT well read. Porn doesn't count.

They literary don’t know..

Yea will there be a quiz on Beowulf and Shakespearean Tragedies for the Trucker in you? Idiots

I think there would be maybe 5 truckers left standing. No offense to truckers but I don’t think Henry James and Willa Cather are in their wheelhouse

Heeeheee well thank God they are disappearing Maya Angelou and James Baldwin phew a bit easier now for all candidates!!! 😂 😆

Officially, I think, those two never existed according to our government so if I wanted to obey, I would say, “Who?”

I've heard a lot of them are pretty smart, but yeah

Lol...I did not notice that on my quick read. Too funny!

Oh... so truck drivers will now need to speed read all the English literature classics and best sellers to pass the exam? Huh, impressive. Imagine the lively discussions in the truck stops and over the CBC radios!

CB (Citizens Band) not CBC radios. ugh

The test will be on Hemingway, Austen, Poe, Dickens.... 😆

Literally...

The illiteracy.

By their own order’s errors, they all failed. No trucking for this administration.

I had the same thought.

🤣🤣🤣🙄

It almost feels like they are setting themselves up to be mocked.

No… they just need to differentiate between Proust and Shakespeare

🤣 oh the irony

If they make it so trump can pass then anyone can.

Yes. Yes, I do.

No, they must have written 15 books on ancient literature.

Oh, the irony. 😂

Exactly.

Nope. They have to recognise opening lines from classic novels.

he's such a dumbass. he knows nothing about Trucking. fitting cause most ppl know nothing about it either. it's the most crooked industry in America. immigrants aren't the problem in Trucking industry. at all. smh.

Literary??? 😆 Seems like a big literacy fail already...

Honestly, this was so on brand and made me laugh too. What an idiot he is

They want to make sure they can identify all the great English writers with both Pride and also Prejudice. I have no Great expectations on their success

Then there will definitely be some Crime and Punishment in their future.

They will have to read some of the great novels before they go, On The Road. 😂

Yes, that and...

Look, if you can’t quote Yeats, Frost, or Poe in the appropriate situations, you have no business driving an 18- wheeler. 😉

Yes! All truckers must know what to do when two roads diverge in a yellow wood!

Feels like take the lesser traveled route would lead to delays in transit though… 😄

I came to say exactly this! 👆🏼

Will Donald Trump sit it first? On paper. In public. Just for the bants.

Hopefully someone will tell them the difference between literary and literacy. I’m not sure anyone in this White House knows!

Tesslers! 🤣

There isn't anything to truck.

So Arkansas leads the way in Uber classism

Tramp probably couldn’t pass it

The point is, that most of immigrant truckers won’t fail such test. If you’re learning another language you must then use daily while working and private, you learn it really well.

"English Literary Tests" The administration enforcing book clubs now .... Be best !!

Cut to Pilot Flying J hosting Brontë sisters meet ups.

😀😆 LOL

😳

Hmmmm, it’s probably a test he can’t even pass.

Definitely

Oh faark. As if transport systems weren’t already in crisis with no ships coming in.

right?

Who’s going to do all this work

We need a sanity test for presidential candidates.

Which literary works will they be tested on? War and Peace, Treasure Island? Perhaps the White House needs its own literacy testing, starting with vocabulary!

LMFAO ya’ll tanking yourselves with your own racism

All the good ole white truckers are still losing their jobs. But I guess they'll blame that on China.

After years working in a law office, I learned “I forgot my glasses” was code for “I can’t read/write”. Age range 20s to 70s. No judgment here since my father couldn’t do either but could build a house from ground up or rebuild any engine. US education has failed many.

I hope I'm not being judged now when I forget my glasses !! 😂 (I only need them for reading and often forget them at my desk at home...) But can relate, I see it in my work too, and sometimes it's because people have dyslexia or English/French isn't their first language, etc.

Most Canadians would Pass, pretty sure.

A test trump would fail.

are they going to pick a specific set of books for the literary test?

Kampf (darn you Siri)

Mein Kampf

It will be 1 question: Are you White?...

… or 50 shades of 🤔 brown?

My dad sent so many new hires to take the CDL that he’d built a manual that gave them verbatim question and answer. It even gave how to write your given name instructions. Just every screw up he’d seen plus Q&A. Dozens failed multiple times. If they got below a 20 or 15 he’d lose it 😂

My brother had about 4 million miles with zero accidents, my dad made 3 million before his 1st accident that saved a pedestrian... but for every good one... there are a lot of bad ones i think...

Yep, that’s what it’s all about.

This is a great idea. it should be required for all public officials! President, senators, congress, etc. Drug tests too. Sad that there are more extensive testing for truck drivers than there is for presidents.

There’s more extensive testing for people working at CVS!

I'm 100% sure that 65-75% of MAGA would fail that test, including Trump and a majority of the members in his admin.

They’ve never worked with any truck drivers

I work with a lot of truck drivers, and they were NOT paying attention during English class. Clearly obvious!

No worries. The truckers in this country won't have trucking jobs soon. Thank the orange shitgibbon for that.

Was a trucker for years. Been keeping an eye on the industry and it's already happening.

Ships in to Long Beach is down 40% compared to last year. Also the load tender amounts (the requests to have loads delivered by trucking companies from shippers) have dropped. And there were already too many trucks out there to begin with. Expect to see smaller companies going bankrupt.

💔

Sadly true.

Ive heard that the industry is mostly Indian or Middle eastern. So whats trump gonna do, fire all the truckers?! That would really put a nail in our economy. HE couldn't pass a literacy test without photos.

Lets have tests for prospective presidents. Mental tests also.

To truck or not to truck. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to know English or to suffer the unknowing of literary of outrageous misfortunes. Paraphrased from that famous soliloquy..those of us who have studied Shakespeare.

👏👏👏👏👏

The test will be reading a full Trump campaign speech and then translating it to English.

Owning the libs by forcing his own base to become more literate. No offense meant to truckers, that’s a damn tough job & they are so essential. But definitely lean more conservative politically so this should be fun to watch play out. I give this policy until Wednesday morning to get reversed.

Literary? Like how well they know the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Joyce? Or did the dolt mean "literacy"?

There we have it. The self-owns are of epic proportions with these guys. 🤦‍♀️

Oh, snap. They’re in for a surprise

Driving while Brown.

First squawk… 🙄

Basic prejudice. A person with an accent in their second language is bilingual already and likely literate in two languages.

Right? A LOT of truckers now are Sikh. From India. Where a whole lot of people speak English. Oy.

Also, it seems to me at least, the route to improved literacy is to improve knowledge and reading of the first language, which many disregard.

That's the ironic part. A large part of America is functionally illiterate and most are the ones that follow him. He's targeting his own people.

The number of Americans who think speaking accented or imperfect English makes someone dumb is staggering. Do these Americans speak two or more languages? I think not.

OMG 100%! I’d like to see most of the Americans I know go to a new country with nothing but the clothes they’re wearing, and survive! These people are resilient and I’m proud to have worked with them and gotten to know them. If only closed minded people had closed mouths.

Haha! This I have to see.🤣

First Squawk is an Indian business, perhaps that's why he doesn't understand the difference between 'literacy' and 'literary'? that's a FAIL.

How about one for the orange turds wife?

A lot of Americans wouldn’t pass that test, the president included.

White men only have to correctly spell two or three letter words.

They should do a literacy test on him. Grammar school level, if that.

To paraphrase the late Bill Hicks, “looks like we got ourselves a reader…”

Truck drivers, known for their high academic achievements, will certainly struggle with the whole English literacy thing. All the same, this is a racist fishing trip and is wrong.

great comment!

Literary, literacy. Idiocy, Idiocracy. Potato, potawto? 🤷‍♀️

Thank gawd I wasn’t the only one 🤔 “truckers have to read classics?”

A drivers license is a privilege and is issued by states not the federal government. Red states, if you want to pay more or have less on your shelves, by all means enact such restrictive laws. Watch your highway taxes and tolls disappear.

👍🏼👍🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

They’ll have plenty of time to sit the tests. They sure as hell ain’t trucking anything.

For Christ’s sake with these morons. I assume they mean “literacy” unless they’re determining how versed in Shakespeare the truckers are. Fucking malevolent morons. Sickening.

The error was totally worth it for all the brilliant comments I have just enjoyed.

TBF it might not be the white house here lol

Trump: "I woke up this morning and when I was pretending I could read the paper, that Calvin and Hobbs, great patriots, I had a beautiful idea to fuck up the already overly screwed demastic logistics industry ..."

Do they have to stand before the entire class and do a book report on the literature Trump is going to force on them? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Imagine if it really is literary. No more semis. Which seems the plan with no cargo.

They will likely only test immigrants

Better give him the test first.

👆🏼this

"approximately 54% of adults, or around 130 million people, have literacy skills equivalent to or below a 6th-grade level. This means they struggle with understanding written materials at a level expected of a 6th grader."

Half of those people voted for Trump.

Literary test? Shakespeare and who else? That'll be fun.

The ALA's lists of banned books www.ala.org/bbooks

Pretty sure POTUS couldn't pass a literary test nor a literacy test.

A bit of Chaucer, Cummings, Emerson, and by presidential demand some Jefferson Davis speeches , Henry Timrod. The president was denied the addition of his favorite reference literature- My Camp - he didn’t know the original was actually done in German.

How about Beowulf in the original? 😉

Trump: destroys America Anglo Saxon bard: that ne wæs gōd cyning!! 👑 🔥

That would basically be German, old English has very little to with modern English. 😁 Hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon! Would be funny to watch a few people try though.

Здравствуйте товарищи! Добро пожаловать в новую Россию! 🇷🇺 🇺🇸

Now that is outside my wheelhouse. I have always admired people who put in the work to learn Cyrillic and one it’s associated languages. 👍

I’ve yet to truly study Anglo-Saxon. I studied German in high school. 🏫 I was planning to appear at my township hall meetings after the EO for English only and speak in Anglo Saxon. 😉 iċ spræce Englisc! 😂 that or learn enough Russian to speak there and troll MAGA really hard everywhere.

Could always just speak like a pirate everywhere and just inform everyone that is what Elizabethans sounded like; including Shakespeare & Marlowe.

Idiots think "Mein Kampf" means "My Camp"?! I guess that's not that surprising since every Anglophone hockey commentator thinks "mano a mano" means "man to man."

I feel your pain. Let me tell you about - My Personal Struggle, I guess you could call it a Private Jihad; too many people overthink it and miss the obvious joke because… Es gibt immer einen arschlöcher, der denkt, alle anderen auf der welt seien dümmer als er.

ein Arschloch.

...German nouns are always capitalized, so ”die Welt" etc. It's das Arschloch, so "ein Arschloch." I'm sure you already know this 😊. If you're German, my most sincere apologies!

I am not German my mother is Alsacien. I have a very rudimentary grasp of it as a spoken language, all spit & no polish, from childhood vacations. I know about the capitalisation of nouns but on the internet and with autocorrect doing the heavy lifting, was sein wird, wird sein. La paresse gagne.

Elle gagne toujours!

J'ai grandi aux É-U et je n'avais jamais étudié le français. Il y a 18 mois, lorsque j'ai eu 59 ans, j'ai décidé d'apprendre la langue (une langue officielle au Canada), et maintenant je parle français plutôt bien 😌

Vous avez l’air d’avoir un esprit jeune et courageux. Ça prend du character pour ce lancé a étudier une nouvelle langue à 59 ans. Même s’il y a des réseau et de l’infrastructure en place pour les ‘citoyens’ c’est comme même un grand effort. Ils dise que travailler la nouille rajeunit l’homme. 👍.

Aujourd'hui j'ai 61 ans ! Et merci 💞

You are the best Canadian German teacher. Thank you! 😉

Yep and we found a big one.

I try my best. Humor is a triple edged sword.

Ya did good. 😊 I translated.

Ahh yes, the great American poet, Shakespeare. Indeed, a truckers favorite read.

First, let's see if Trump can pass the literacy test.

"Breaker 1-9, come on back. As soon as you drop that load at dollar general, I'm gonna need that essay on the symbolism in Wuthering Heights. 10-4, over." 😏

I could totally hear that in my head.

Beautiful!!!! 😀

Perfect

"To drive, or not to drive, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The aches and eyesores of outrageous traffic, Or to lay down arms against that sea of troubles And by snoozing end them..."

🤣🤣 Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou... Romeo: "I'm on a short haul to Biloxi, gotta drop off a load of hand soap at Walmart."

I love me some SHAKESPEARE!!!

I love “Wuthering Heights”! Great book and movie! 📚🎥

Here ya go.

🥇Underfuckingrated skeet🥇

🤣🤣🤣

😂

You win the thread.

Lol

Best post of the day. Brilliant 👏👏👏

“Literary”?! Do they mean “literacy”? (I think the poster would fail a literacy test too! No truck driving for them!)

I doubt that Donald Trump is concerned that our truck drivers should be well read! …Should be conversant with our great American authors.

As we begin driverless operations - chefs kiss

Won't they be shocked when the results are almost the opposite of what they intend...

Don't worry, if you're White and vote Trump the score doesn't matter. Exceptions will be made. Mark my words 💯

You're probably right about that. They'll start changing the way they keep score when they start seeing the "wrong" people passing the tests instead of their dolts.

If I was a trucker, I'd say, I'm not taking any f***** test untill the felon takes one with me at the same time. Let's see who does better!

Well, I know the stupid f***** felon, would! When are we going to give him a test? So the whole world can see how stupid the f*** is so there won't be any more questions about that! The whole world will know how stupid this m*********** is!

Did the author mean to write "literacy?" Or if it is a literary test, will there be a list of books to study up on ahead of time? Please tell me Pride and Prejudice is on it!

Too British. Faulkner. Lots of Faulkner.

Drumpf couldn't pass a third-grade English exam.

Would con don pass this test?

how did this even make the top 1000 issues the administration should be focused on?

He needs to take one first😂🤣

Every single day in office, FOTUS proves he can do something stupider than the day before.

Sounds like government overreach to me but perhaps truckers will have other thoughts like drive your shit around yourself then.

Finally an order everyone can support. Who gave him that good idea?

Is this MAGA English or English graded by a teacher/ Professor.

Bigly

LMAOOO THIS CANNOT BE REAL